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My third dress is complete! A summer sewing has been great fun. I have 3 dresses I love thanks to Colette patterns. These two dresses are Hazel dresses. A simple, strappy, summer dress that is easy to dress up with heels or down with a denim jacket.

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The fabric for the blind has arrived! A lovely, simple geometric pattern from the 2wenty Thr3e range. But as you can see my sewing machine is already in use finishing a little summer dress. Hopefully I’ll finish it today and post the results later. This is the third dress sewn this summer and I finally feel I’m getting the hanging of the sewing machine. Roman blinds though… I’m a little nervous to be starting them.

My mum and Granny came over yesterday to see how the decorating was going and it lovely to be able to sit down in the dining room with the painting all complete.

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I’ve taken up sewing again. I tried multiple times but I lack the patience to get most things finished. What spurs me on is my Granny’s beautiful fifties Singer sewing machine which sits in pride of place on my crafting table…waiting.

Today though I tried a brand new technique, putting in an invisible zipper, and it worked. It was trial on a cushion before attempting to add one into the bigger project of a dress. The cushion is made from simple, heavy grey fabric from Ikea and printable fabric with an old map of New Zealand as a centre panel.